Lane von Herzen: Awaiting the Reports

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Friday, October 25, 2024

Awaiting the Reports

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OIG Hotline, the FBI has appeared to allege that reports are scheduled to come to me today.

However, that assertion has allegedly been accompanied by extreme physical threats toward both of my sons and apparent extortion demands toward me regarding disclosures to the Court about which I have never been informed.

I have attempted to express consistently that disclosures to me should match disclosures to the Supreme Court, as the Court itself has ordered.

I do not believe that the FBI or others should be editing, redacting or omitting critical segments of the reports in their own self-interest.

I do not believe the Supreme Court has permitted such obstruction, and I do not believe its Justices would tolerate it if they knew about it.

I have asked for the reports in their entirety, and my entire family has risked our health, our careers, and our lives in the effort to obtain them.

The Supreme Court of the United States appears, at least according to the FBI, to have granted an injunctive order requiring that the reports be provided to us.

If so, I believe the Supreme Court should be respected in its determination in my favor.

Thank you for allowing me to express these concerns.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams

* Please allow me to once again extend the disclaimer that some threats received by me and extended by the FBI are unsubstantiated by me at this time. I regret that I am unable to assess the credibility of every threat extended by this agency or their affiliates, and also that I am not in a position to judge the likelihood of their manifestation. Having said that, many of the FBI's threats toward my family in the past have manifested in real-world harms. As a result, I believe that FBI threats extended to me must be viewed as potentially substantive.